Piotr Smierzewski co-founded HS99 with Dariusz Herman in Koszalin in 1999, after practicing for four years in Karlsruhe. The city was wantonly demolished by the Red Army after the German forces and most of the population had fled, leaving little of its Hanseatic legacy, and it was drably rebuilt after the war. That has given HS99 the opportunity to raise the bar and insert...